When I say “I Eat Books Like That For Breakfast”, what I mean is
Posted on: April 10, 2014
When I say “I eat books like that for breakfast”, what I mean is that I eat them for dessert. literally*. Around the world, on or around April Fool’s Day is The Edible Books Festival. Our local Edible Books evening was the first Friday of April. Hosted by the Kalamazoo Book Arts Center, over twenty smart, funny, and punny edible books awaited judgement (and eating!). Being a play on words, or a pun of some kind certainly wasn’t a requirement, but all of my favorites were word plays of some kind. observe the deliciousness! Warning – photo dump and awful photography ahead.
“Dive-rgent”
James and the Giant Peach (And poor James is barely holding on by his green pepper hands)
Harry Potter and the Camembert of Secrets, served with a bottle of Harry Porter.
The Brothers Carrot-Matzah (doesn’t look that tasty, but great timing!)
Hop(s) on Pop (one of my favorites!)
A Game of Scones. (this joke is never, EVER going to get old!)
The Fault in Our Stars (I think I was the only one who laughed at this one)
Bun Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
Banana Karenina
A Clockwork Orange (Finally! A family friendly verson!)
The Hobbit. No puns here, just foodtastic gorgeousness.
Anyone got any good ideas for a visual play on words of an edible book? All I’ve come up with so far is Chord of the Rings, where it’s a bunch of onion rings on guitar frets, with the caption “one chord to rule us all”.
*see? I used “literally” correctly!
8 Responses to "When I say “I Eat Books Like That For Breakfast”, what I mean is"
April 10, 2014 at 8:59 am
This is hysterical. I’ve never heard of this food festival, so cool! And I would NOT eat any of these, that would just be weird.
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April 10, 2014 at 1:47 pm
I didn’t know until recently that it was an international thing, I thought it was a local thing hosted by one of the bakeries.
there were plenty of people at the event who were very happy to eat the cakes and snacks. the kids love it, because no one can yell at them to not play with their food. 😀
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April 10, 2014 at 12:16 pm
You know, if you truly wanted to be abstract you could have arranged to turn up late once all the cake had gone and claim you’ve won with “The Hunger Games”? No?
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the Little Red Reviewer 
April 10, 2014 at 8:47 am
Hop on Pop is great, but isn’t pop a very regional term? I never leave my little area of the country, so I am not sure how widespread it really is.
I would eat the Pies of Locke Lamora though, they would have a deceptively good center.
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April 10, 2014 at 9:00 am
We don’t say “pop” in California either, Nathan.
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April 10, 2014 at 1:44 pm
“pop” for soda I think is a midwest thing? Very funny for us midwesterners who never leave our corners of the world. 😉
omg, Pies of Locke Lamora! love it!
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